Architecture roles and processes

"If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Meaning, if you talk to a developer or someone who is a product security manager about security architecture, they are going to focus on the software life cycle or how to build controls at various application trust boundaries. If you talk to IT operations, they are going to tell you about segmenting the network and hardening the perimeter. To me, security architecture is more holistic: it's the overall set of processes, policy, people, technology, and controls that ensure security goals are aligned with business goals."

– Ted Ipsen, President and COO at Positroniq, LLC

In this chapter, we've discussed what security architecture is conceptually, describing and providing an introduction to some of the standards and frameworks that are involved in effecting it in an organization. The last topic that we will cover before we get into the "meat" of...